Responsibilities, and Other Poems

by W. B. Yeats

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Responsibilities, and Other Poems has contents listing poems called The Grey Rock, The Two Kings, and To a Wealthy Man. A speaker addresses dead tavern comrades and says they never made a poorer song for a heavier purse or served a cause for friends. The speaker credits the comrades with keeping the Muses' sterner laws and facing their ends without repentance.

The poem headed THESE ARE THE CLOUDS describes clouds around a fallen sun and the majesty shutting its burning eye. The poem describes the weak laying hands on what the strong have done, with discord following unison. AT GALWAY RACES describes riders on galloping horses and a crowd closing in behind, with delight bringing all to one mind.

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W. B. Yeats

William Butler Yeats (1865 to 1939) was an Irish poet and dramatist, a driving force of the Irish Literary Revival and a co-founder of the Abbey Theatre. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923 and is counted among the foremost figures of twentieth-century poetry.